{"nrhp_refnum":"74001755","name":"Green Hills Farm","other_names":["Buck,Pearl S.,House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"SW of Dublin on Dublin Rd., Hilltown Township","address_restricted":false,"city":"Dublin","county":"Bucks County","state":"PA","lat":40.36056653300005,"lon":-75.2187216703293,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1974-02-27","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"1980-01-16","areas_of_significance":["Literature","Social History"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A farmstead complex of buildings at Green Hills Farm in Dublin, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, built over roughly 200 years, with its main farmhouse begun in 1835.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the farm is architecturally significant as a 19th century farmstead, but its primary significance is its association with novelist Pearl Buck, who lived there from 1933 until her death in 1973. She wrote many of her literary works at the farm.","narrative":"Dublin, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, is the setting for a farmstead whose buildings span roughly two centuries, from a stone summer kitchen said to predate the Revolution to a barn and milkhouse built in 1827. The main house began in 1835 as a coursed fieldstone farmhouse, four bays wide, with gable dormers and chimneys at each end. In 1933 novelist Pearl Buck bought the property and extended the house during the 1930s with a 2½ story fieldstone wing and two one-story libraries, producing a composite structure about 135 feet long. Its interiors were modernized at that time, so little of the original survives. The farm is significant chiefly for Buck's forty years there, from 1933 until her death in 1973. She wrote many of her books at the farm, including The Good Earth, which brought her the Pulitzer Prize in 1932, and she received the Nobel Prize for literature in 1938. The property is now held by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which cares for Amerasian children and runs an adoption agency there.","period_of_significance":"1827, 1835, 1933-1973","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition marked excellent, altered, original site; the property is owned by the Pearl S. Buck Foundation, which operates an adoption agency there.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:28.964588-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/74001755.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001755/c2e5ec94d6-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/74001755/c2e5ec94d6-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Hills_w_additions_BucksCo_PA.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Green_Hills_w_additions_BucksCo_PA.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71995301","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearl_S._Buck_House_National_Historic_Landmark","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5602667"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/bucks-county/green-hills-farm-74001755/"}